An institutional perspective of Open Source Software adoption in organizations:Across-country investigation

16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 109-114

  Li, Yan ^a   Teo, Hock Hai ^a   Tan, Chuan Hoo ^a   Watson, Richard T ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ADOPTION INTENTION; COERCIVE PRESSURES; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE; INSTITUTIONAL PRESSURES; MIMETIC PRESSURES; NORMATIVE PRESSURES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84901931319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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